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Item Description

Title: Justus F. Gale to Brother

Author

• Gale, Justus F., 1837-1863

Recipient

• Gale,Charles T., 1845-1862

Source Document

Description

Writing from Brattleboro, Vermont, topics include news of bombardment of Fort Henry on the Tennessee River (February 6, 1862) by Commodore Andrew Hull Foote (officer of the U.S. Navy) and General Ulysses S. Grant, a skirmish that resulted in finding a barrel of rum, food sometimes good but not the hash made in camp and the vaccination of the company for pox.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Diseases
• Military camps -- Vermont
• Skirmishing
• Fort Henry, Battle of, Tenn., 1862
• Food

Subject/name

• United StatesArmy

  -- Military life

• United StatesArmy.Vermont Infantry Regiment, 8th (1861-1865)

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2012-01-03, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• Justus F. Gale Correspondence

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